More than 2.5 million demonstrators take to the streets in France

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A demonstrator holds a placard reading "Lady Gaga with us" during a workers demonstration in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Tuesday, Oct.19, 2010. Some airliners steered clear of France and police clashed with stone-throwing youths Tuesday as a new round of nationwide strikes and protests over a bill raising the retirement age to 62 kicked off.​

 

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Plainclothes police escort a youth into a police van at the end of a demonstration over pension reform in Paris October 21, 2010.​

 

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Anti riot police face young men holding a placard reading 'Don't touch to my city'.

Anti riot police face young men holding French national flag as they protest against the breakers who caused damages on the edges of demonstrations against government's pension reform, on October 22, 2010 in Lyon. The movement has become more radical in the past two weeks with students and violent radicals joining some of the protests, burning cars and clashing with police in the Paris suburbs and the city of Lyon. For two months France has been in the grip of a wave of protests against the government's bid to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 and to set the latest threshold for full pension payments at 67.​

 

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Tens of thousands of the French workers protest as the Unions in France launch new strikes against the pension reform plan on October 28, 2010 in Marseille, France. This is the seventh day of protest for French workers angry at the Government's proposed pension reforms. Nicolas Sarkozy, however, has not wavered in his plans to increase the state pension age from 60 to 62 and last night the National Assembly passed the bill.​

 

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Protesters face-off with French gendarmes as private and public sector workers demonstrate over pension reform in Saint-Nazaire October 28, 2010. Further strikes disrupted rail and air transport in France on Thursday but the broader protest over plans to raise the retirement age appeared to be waning a day after parliament adopted pension reform legislation.​

 

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A youth taunts French gendarmes in a face-off as private and public sector workers demonstrate over pension reform in Saint-Nazaire October 28, 2010.​

 

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French gendarmes apprehend a hooded youth after clashes at a demonstration over pension reform in Saint-Nazaire October 28, 2010.​

 

[singveld]

still protesting? law already passed.
french.
take away their social welfare

starve their kids if they do not work,
see if they have time to go on strike.

too much good life for too long. must make them suffer like sinkies, then they know how good their life has been.

 

[ivebert]

still protesting? law already passed.
french.
take away their social welfare

starve their kids if they do not work,
see if they have time to go on strike.

too much good life for too long. must make them suffer like sinkies, then they know how good their life has been.

u r overstating their social welfare

france's welfare system is very minimal